Thread:Mixed talk/@comment-27493717-20180811160656/@comment-27493717-20180818103448

My dad talked to me. ^^

We had further ideas about how to improve the backend of our test wiki and legal things.

The raspberry pi, that hosts the test wiki, currently only features Linux with a classic text-interface, but we are currently trying to upgrade it to also feature a graphical interface to make it easier to navigate and edit the wiki's backend and the files used by the backend.

As the community itself will be closed with only invited users being able to participate, there will be no legal issues. Also the disclaimer will mention, that user data will only be kept around for running the wiki and won't be used anywhere else.

This means, your login credentials and account settings will be saved on the server, because the wiki needs them so that you can log in, work with your account and get notified when a page gets changed, but this will all that will happen to that data.

If you request to participate over at any of my message walls over here at FANDOM or via a private note over at ZTheGS at DeviantArt, I will be the one who creates your account and will be handing out the invitation and initial password to you, but once you change your intial password, you will be the only one to be in charge of your own account.

If you want notifications, make sure to change the demo mail address to your mail address, so that you will get notified. The demo mail address leads nowhere, which means, that if you leave it or add an invalid mail address, you won't receive any notifications.

Currently, we host the test wiki over at our local network, so that it can't be accesed from the internet, but my dad asked me, if we should buy a hosting account, where we could host a virtual server for free or for a small fee.

If we keep the server at our place, it will only be available when our network is online and as such will have downtimes.

If it will be moved to a hosting account, it will be moved to an independant online hosting service, that will only host the machine, but won't access our content or be related in any other way. This means, it will be a different relationship than the current one with FANDOM. Also, if we decide to let the independant service host our machine, won't have downtimes.

Regardless, which way we choose, only a small group of people will be able to edit, but once the wiki is online, everyone will be able to visit our wiki, even if they will only be visitors, that won't be able to edit.

Also, I will be in charge of the hard- and software, the wiki is build on, so if anything is buggy or if you want more features at the new wiki or notice that something is missing, you will have to contact me, so that I can then look around and resolve the issue or add the new features.

There will also be backups of the wiki, so that nothing will get lost. (in fact, there already are two backups of the test wiki!)

I don't know when the test wiki will go online, but I will do my best to first add all features, that are necessary for properly displaying our content.

While the computer itself wasn't for free and both the power to run it and the hosting will likely cost a small fee, the wiki itself will be non-commercial. As I said earlier, there will be no ads. Also, you won't have to pay anything for joining or participating.

As for our currently existing content, migrating it and having it displaying properly should be easy once I have added things like tabbers, polls, templates and the likes to the test wiki.

I am currently still using the default user "user", but once I am done with the initial testing and adding features, I will soon create and move to my regular account. This means, you will also find me as "Semerone" over at the test wiki.

Wow. So much text! XD

But I really want to keep you up to date, because I feel like sharing the good news, and my joy about creating a new wiki from scratch, with you. :)